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Offline trev

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Re: [WIP] Trev gets Bolshie - An RCW Project Log
« Reply #120 on: July 22, 2020, 11:02:34 PM »
Were the Bolt Action rules ever amended so that the rifles did have the range to shoot over their Pegasus Bridge model? I'm sure that I heard they changed the rules  ???

I think they are 24” for rifles but I don’t really know them.  Some of the guys at the club like them but for 28mm WW2 I’ve played Battlegroup.

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Re: [WIP] Trev gets Bolshie - An RCW Project Log
« Reply #121 on: July 23, 2020, 07:46:05 AM »
I think they are 24” for rifles but I don’t really know them.  Some of the guys at the club like them but for 28mm WW2 I’ve played Battlegroup.

Ah right, I got confused by the title of the pic. I've played Chain of Command for Through the Mud and the Blood and they were an excellent set of rules. I've yet to try out Battlegroup. I have to say, I was immediately put off by the 24" range, effective range or not, as most of my WWII games have been played on a 6' x 4' or 12' x 8 table.

Keep those lovely pics coming- inspirational as they are  8)

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Re: [WIP] Trev gets Bolshie - An RCW Project Log
« Reply #122 on: July 28, 2020, 10:18:51 PM »
Latest progress on my steamer.





This is the inspiration.  It’s not identical but gives a bit of the impression.




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Re: [WIP] Trev gets Bolshie - An RCW Project Log
« Reply #123 on: July 28, 2020, 10:53:41 PM »
Cracking job.
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« Reply #124 on: July 29, 2020, 07:21:19 AM »
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Re: [WIP] Trev gets Bolshie - An RCW Project Log
« Reply #125 on: July 30, 2020, 05:07:29 AM »
Your steamer really looks the part!
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Re: [WIP] Trev gets Bolshie - An RCW Project Log
« Reply #126 on: July 31, 2020, 08:10:48 AM »
Just awesome Trev!
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Re: [WIP] Trev gets Bolshie - An RCW Project Log
« Reply #127 on: August 02, 2020, 07:37:24 PM »
Thanks all.  Fingers crossed I'll get to play a game this week!  :o

In the meantime here are a few new troops.

A second unit of Cossacks, including some lancers this time. 


A few more Red Sailors


Some Reds with Head Swaps


Some generic troops to use as Socialists, Reds or Whites and maybe Nationalists as needed.





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Re: [WIP] Trev gets Bolshie - An RCW Project Log
« Reply #128 on: August 02, 2020, 08:02:37 PM »
All nice but I really like the Cossacks!
Got to kick at the darkness till it bleeds daylight.

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Re: [WIP] Trev gets Bolshie - An RCW Project Log
« Reply #129 on: August 02, 2020, 08:42:16 PM »
Lovely.....  8)

Fingers crossed for that game :)

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Re: [WIP] Trev gets Bolshie - An RCW Project Log
« Reply #130 on: August 02, 2020, 11:03:04 PM »
Lovely work all around. I really like the generic figures though! I've done something similar with my VBCW/ARBM forces. Their allegiance is determined by whichever flag or character is deployed with them at the start of the game  :)

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Re: [WIP] Trev gets Bolshie - An RCW Project Log
« Reply #131 on: August 03, 2020, 08:58:56 AM »
Lovely work all around. I really like the generic figures though! I've done something similar with my VBCW/ARBM forces. Their allegiance is determined by whichever flag or character is deployed with them at the start of the game  :)

And/or "the last person I heard a speak" ;) :)

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Re: [WIP] Trev gets Bolshie - An RCW Project Log
« Reply #132 on: August 03, 2020, 10:39:08 PM »
And/or "the last person I heard a speak" ;) :)

Nah, my dockworkers aren't so fickle as to be turned by a travelling Tory ;)

Those Socialists however  :D

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Re: [WIP] Trev gets Bolshie - An RCW Project Log
« Reply #133 on: August 04, 2020, 10:47:26 AM »
Nah, my dockworkers aren't so fickle as to be turned by a travelling Tory ;)

Those Socialists however  :D

It's ban actual quote by one of the Bolshevik soldiers the Dunsterforce encountered! lol

I guess if you have had no formal education and been treated like a serf for most of your life you're might be prone to just go with the flow.

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« Reply #134 on: August 04, 2020, 02:26:46 PM »
We managed to get some figures on the table yesterday.  Here are a few pics.



Whites and Reds search house to house for supplies.





The cossacks rode down some red sailors then threatened the now isolated red artillery.



Comrade Zhelezniakov and the food requisition detachment cross cold steel with some white officers while father Basil shouts curses as the godless commie scum.



Lastly, some pics of the full armies so far.



« Last Edit: August 04, 2020, 02:39:32 PM by trev »

 

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